Estate Pinot Noir
100% Pinot Noir
From a small selection of our Marlborough vineyards including blocks in the Southern Valleys and the Awatere Valley. All are two- cane VSP pruned, shoot-thinned and fruit-thinned to ensure low crops and a complete and consistent ripeness. The grapes were gently crushed into small, open-top fermenters and they were held cold for five days before being inoculated with specially selected yeast. During fermentation the wine was hand-plunged three times a day to gently extract color, tannin and flavor from the skins. The resulting wines were left on skins for seven days post ferment before pressing to predominantly old French oak barriques (just 10% new). The wine was blended after ten months maturation in barrel.